Author(s): Erlendur Arason, Quentin Bates (Translator)

Location(s): Reykjavik

Genre(s): Noir, Crime

Era(s): Contemporary

(Reykjavík Shadows Book 1)

The smarter a place looks, the darker the secrets it hides.

Guests at one of Reykjavík’s smartest hotels never know what happens behind the scenes –including what brings a group of down-and-outs to the Bristol Hotel every winter night while the rest of the world sleeps.

When overworked supervisor Torfi finds himself given an unexpected promotion that comes with a respectable pay rise, he takes it as a lucky break – until he’s told to make a murder victim disappear, and that he doesn’t have any choice. That’s when his life rapidly gets a lot more complicated.

What isn’t he being told? Torfi doesn’t know, but when police officers Haukur and Dagný start asking awkward questions, he needs to find answers – even though he knows only half of the story.

Longing desperately to go back to his old, boring life, Torfi finds himself desperately out of his depth as his family are threatened and his problems spiral far out of his control.

Erlendur Arason is a fresh voice in Nordic Noir. If Icelandic winter crime fiction is your thing, check out the first in this new series.

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